Some screwy editing going on there. The giggling sequence was inexpertly spliced to follow the mention of blood.

Also, the man buying a pearl is a parable of Jesus in Matthew 13. A pearl merchant finds an expensive pearl and liquidates his inventory to purchase it. The pearl is supposed to be like the kingdom of God. What the parable actually means has been debated by Christians for centuries.

Looks like Bible-Man has competition for most painful Christian children's television.

For those of us who grew up in evangelical households (well, for me anyway), this isn't actually that unfamiliar. It seems weird and stupid now, but it's about average with regard to what you can buy for your kids in any Christian bookstore. Still, I like being reminded of what my kids will never have to be put through.

It's been suggested that TV, with its 2-D images, doesn't allow for the full development of our brains, which evolved to process imagery in a 3-D environment.

I've always suspected fundamentalism was neurological, but I assumed it was inherited. If these shows are what Christian kids are being exposed to, what must the ramifications be for their development? Could environment be influencing neurology? Could these shows actually be making them stupid(er)?

Perhaps they can't progress beyond the mythic level of development. This would help to explain the deer-in-the-headlight looks when basic scientific principles are explained to them.

@soul biscuit-As I was growing up as a Catholic child in Catholic Québec, we had a program called "L'Évangile en papier" (the paper gospel) made by Claude Lafortune, an artist specialised in, well, I guess paper puppets/figurines. Basically, it was Bible stories (mainly New testament) with characters made of paper. The whole format and approach certainly gave it an entertaining value. Later on, Lafortune made other programs where he talked about various cultures and other religions, always in positive terms, so he was also preaching religious tolerance, which we cannot blame him for. He was a pretty creative man, but sadly none of his programs mentioned say French existentialism. Anyway, it was not nearly as bad as that, although I remember cringing watching an episode about Mass. But I was 12 then and not as devout. But we had our share of weird stuff: I remember another religious program with mimes miming parables in a gloomy background, accompanied by a drony voice over, and that was really spooky.@BrainFromArous-I'm with you there and see above.

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